Remote IDE (VS Code)
You can access Oscar's file-system remotely from Visual Studio Code (VS Code). Note that access of Oscar from VS Code is still considered experimental, and as such, 24x7 support is not available.
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You can access Oscar's file-system remotely from Visual Studio Code (VS Code). Note that access of Oscar from VS Code is still considered experimental, and as such, 24x7 support is not available.
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September 10, 2023: Some users have reported issues while connecting to the Oscar VS Code remote extension. This is due to a recent change introduced by VS Code. To address this issue
Ctrl (cmd on Mac) + Shift + P > Remote-SSH: Settings
Disable the Remote.SSH: Use Exec Server option
To use VS Code you will need to be connected to the VPN. Please install the before proceeding.
Install the for VS Code:
2. Open VS Code settings and uncheck symlink:
Code > Preferences > Settings
Search for symlink
and make sure the symlink searching is unchecked
4. Edit the config
file:
The config
file is located at:
~/.ssh/config
Edit the config
file on your local machine, add the following lines. Replace <username>
with your Oscar username.
September 10, 2023: Some users have reported issues while connecting to the Oscar VSCode remote extension. This is due to a recent change introduced by VSCode. To address this issue
In VS Code, select Remote-SSH: Connect to Host… and after the list populates select ccv-vscode-node
6. Install and set up of VS Code
After a moment, VS Code will connect to the SSH server and set itself up.
Configure VS Code
Connect to VS Code first.
You can either create a symlink via the ln
command below,
or manually create /users/$USER/.vscode-server/data/Machine/settings.json
file with following contents
Click the green icon "Open a Remote Window" in the bottom left corner of VS Code Window. Then click "Connect to Host" in the drop down list.
2. Select the ccv-vscode-node
option to connect to Oscar.
3. Make sure you have set up passwordless SSH authentication to Oscar. If you haven't, please refer to this .